The Blockade Runners
by Jules Verne
'The Blockade Runners' Summary
The American Civil War plot centers on the exploits of a British merchant captain named James Playfair who must break the Union blockade of Charleston harbor in South Carolina to trade supplies for cotton and, later in the book, to rescue Halliburtt, the abolitionist journalist father of a young girl held prisoner by the Confederates. Verne’s tale was inspired by reality as many ships were actually lost while acting as blockade runners in and around Charleston in the early 1860s
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Jules Verne
France
Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation was markedly different in an...
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